I've been asked by a few people this week if I can share a copy of the comment piece I've just written for JOSPT on the recent Editorial Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy After COVID-19: Time for a New “Normal”. Obviously the print version is covered by copyright, but here is a pre-print working version of the brief paper. Traditionally ‘passive’ physiotherapy modalities like spinal traction, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, massage, tissue mobilisation and manipulation, have all been subject to critique for some years now. Most recently, these approaches have been labeled low-value care, because, it is claimed, they provide little or no benefit to the patient, and their risks … [Read more...] about The active future for the passive therapist (draft)
This year’s 30 Days of September campaign is about you!
Those of you who have been with the CPN since it began in 7 BC (Before COVID) will know that one of our earlies 30DoS campaigns featured a handful of our lovely CPN members.Having brief profiles of some of our colleagues and friends really helped us to grow as a network and feel like a family, so we thought, given how fractured we all are right now, it was time we did it again. So our plan is to feature one person in the Network every day for 30 days.We want to profile members new and old, students, new graduates and experienced practitioners, teachers and researchers, the deeply critical and those of you who are just getting started. To make it manageable for us, we've drafted five … [Read more...] about This year’s 30 Days of September campaign is about you!
CPN Digest #140
Something for the weekend: Mapping movements: a call for qualitative social network analysisFlexible Selves in Flexible Times? Yoga and Neoliberal Subjectivities in IstanbulStudying physiotherapy education in Europe – quality of life and quality of education among physiotherapy students200+ Hours of FREE Conference Recordings on Online LearningOne Startup’s Solution for Zoom Fatigue? The Walk and TalkHas the gig economy come to physical therapy?Physiotherapy and physiotherapy education – from an international to a global and value-based perspective‘No Man’s Land’: Disability, Rehabilitation, Welfare Policy and the British Ex-Service Migrant in Australia, 1918–39Reflections on gender and … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #140
From fragile to mobile – getting patient’s moving
In the 1920s and 30s, heart disease was considered so volatile and dangerous, and patients so vulnerable and fragile, that the best medical advice was to put the patient to bed and allow them to rest. Rest gave doctors and nurses the opportunity to stabilise the precarious cardiovascular system - a system that was hardly known at all - and keep the patient under surveillance. The goal was to prolong life and reduce the incidence of further illness. Recovery seemed an unlikely outcome since any movement might send the heart into a new crisis. Attitudes began to change in the 1950s though, as the incidence of heart disease in America and some European countries became a real concern. … [Read more...] about From fragile to mobile – getting patient’s moving
CPN Digest #139
Something for the weekend: Outside the textNHS uses AI scan to detect hidden heart diseaseResearch placements can help health professionals ground their practice in evidence The Problem of Complexity: Knowing ComplexityUnblocking the placements logjam through e-placements in healthcareThe mystery of ‘Harriet Cole’Eugenics powers IQ and AIThe Quest to Tell Science from PseudoscienceThe Humanities Have a Marketing Problem The Concept of ‘Illness Without Disease’ Impedes Understanding of Chronic Fatigue SyndromeUS massage parlour shootings should ring alarm bells in Australia: the same racist sexism exists hereThe Influence of Power on Leisure: Implications for Inclusive Leisure ServicesOn … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #139
CPN Digest #138
Something for the weekend: ‘How can reason have a history and still aim at being objective’ - on Ian HackingWho the hell are the disabled?The Biopolitical Embodiment of Work in the Era of Human EnhancementDeconstructing JackieGood teachers know that bodies matterThe care crisisRobots that use magnets to ‘feel’ thingsThe Journey of Humanizing Care for People With DisabilitiesCrowdsourcing digital health measures to predict Parkinson’s disease severityWhen nature is valued over human lifeAm I my connectome?Allies and Obstacles: Disability Activism and Parents of Children with DisabilitiesMIT Has Invented Smart Clothes That Predict Your PostureDigital Humanities Scholarship: A Model for … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #138
CPN Digest #137
Something for the weekend: The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?Pressure-sensing insolesParticularizing an Internal Morality of Physical TherapyUrban ideals and rural realities: Physiotherapists navigating paradox in overlapping rolesMaterials matter: Understanding the importance of sociomaterial assemblages for OSCE candidate performanceWill virtual rehabilitation replace clinicians: a contemporary debate about technological versus human obsolescenceThe Posthuman & New Materialism: Online course with Rosi BraidottiCfP: New Dialogues Between Medical Sociology and Disability Studies‘This Place Is Not for Children Like Her’: Disability, Ambiguous Belonging and the … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #137